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Short books are movie-length narratives that may well be the perfect span for knowledge fiction testimonies. This music collection presents the best-of-the-best brief science fiction books released in 2014 by current and rising masters of the vivid form of storytelling. In The Man Who Sold the Moon by Cory Doctorow, hardware geeks and Getting rid of Man fanatics strap together to get over challenges such as crowdfunding a space mission, dropping in love, battling tumor, and perfecting an available source engineering marvel in order to place a 3-D printing automatic robot that creates ceramic building panels from sand on the moon. The Man Who Sold the Moon earned the 2015 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Prize for best brief science fiction. In The Regular by Ken Liu, a cybernetically increased private investigator continues her emotions in balance with a piece of hardware called The Regulator while she searches for the murderer of your prostitute whom she suspects is a serial killer. Claudius Rex, by John P. Murphy, is a sci-fi whodunit comedy that pays tongue-in-cheek homage to Rex Stout and Isaac Asimov. A humble PI associates with an arrogant AI to solve the murder of the AI's inventor. Ai! In Of All Possible Worlds by Jay O'Connell, an old timeline wizard coaxes a youthful man to be his apprentice in an attempt to edit Earth's history so that the planet will avoid the ravages of the Long Evening and ensure that our timeline is the on top of that possible worlds. In Each in His Prison, Thinking about the Key by William Preston, the US government brings a telepathic interrogator who is a veteran of the American battle in Iraq to a magic formula complex in Texas to obtain a handle by using an enigmatic prisoner known as "The Old Man". A test of wills ensues between the two in this homage to Doc Savage. Finally, in The Last Log of the Lachrimosa by Alastair Reynolds, occur the Revelation Space universe, a team investigates a cave on a volcanic world in the expectations of salvaging valuable empty tech only to find that the cave is defended with a horrific psychological weapon.